Literature : British literature /

Allen, Janet

Literature : British literature / Janet Allen, Arthur N. Applebee, Jim Burke, [ y otros doce] - Grade 12 - Estados Unidos : Houghton mifflin harcourt, 2012. - 1441 páginas ; ilustraciones, 26 cm.

INTRODUCTORY UNIT.
Text analysis workshop.
Academic vocabulary workshop.
Writing process workshop.
UNIT 1. THE ORIGINS OF A NATION.
The anglo-saxon and medieval periods 449-1485
The anglo-saxon epic.
Reflections of common life.
The age of chaucer.
Medieval romance.
UNIT 2. A CELEBRATION OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
The english renaissance 1485-1660.
Pastoral poems and sonnets.
Shakespearean drama.
The rise of humanism.
Spiritual and devotional writings.
The metaphysical and cavalier poets.
UNIT 3. TRADITION AND REASON.
The restoration and the 18th century.
1660-1798.
Social observers.
Satirical voices.
The age of johnson.
The rise of women writers.
UNIT 4. EMOTION AND EXPERIMENTATION.
The flowering of romanticism.1798-1832.
Revolt against neoclassicism.
The lake poets.
The late romantics.
UNIT 5. AN ERA OF RAPID CHANGE.
The victorians 1832-1901.
the influence of romanticism.
Realism in fiction.
Victorian viewpoints.
UNIT 6. NEW IDEAS, NEW VOICES.
Modern and contemporary literature.
1901-present.
The challenge of modernism.
The Irish literary renaissance.
Responses to war and Colonialism.
Postwar writers.
Legacy of empire.
UNIT 7. INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY.
The power of research.


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Literature--British
Literatura británica

R 820 / L776 2012